[End of April — before May 8, 1906]

Should one not add to the criticism of the 1st part of the minority resolution that it reveals a complete lack of understanding of the danger of the "theory of compromise"?

**EDITORIAL NOTES:**

¹ At the IV (Unification) Congress of the RSDLP, which took place in Stockholm from April 23 to May 8, 1906, both the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks put forward two draft resolutions on the attitude toward the State Duma. In the commission for drafting a general resolution on the State Duma, created at the seventh session of the Congress, it proved impossible to reach agreement, and the Congress was presented with two resolutions: the Menshevik resolution by G. V. Plekhanov, P. B. Axelrod, F. I. Dan, and the Bolshevik resolution by V. I. Lenin, I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov, and A. V. Lunacharsky. In his counter-report on the question of attitude toward the State Duma at the seventeenth session of the Congress, Lenin subjected the Menshevik resolution to sharp criticism (see Complete Collected Works, vol. 12, pp. 379–384).

The present note was apparently written in connection with the discussion of the resolutions and the delivery of the counter-report.

[Previous page content regarding the zemstvo conference of April 22-26, 1905 (old style):] 

...representative assembly, 49 — against. For direct elections to the Constituent Assembly, which should consist of a single chamber, — 71; for indirect — 54. Ten abstained. For universal suffrage in the permanent representative assembly — 127, against — 8; for universal suffrage in the Constituent Assembly — 104, against — 15; abstained — 14. — All of this was apparently trial voting, to gauge sentiment. Politically, the gentlemen liberals do not bind themselves and present the tsar with no definite electoral program!

¹ The reference is to a conference of zemstvo figures held in Moscow on April 22–26 (old style), 1905. The conference discussed the question of the basis for the desirable organization of popular representation in Russia and the procedure for introducing representative institutions into practice.

V. I. Lenin devotes his articles to the history of the question of the convocation and work of the zemstvo congress and to the mutual relations of the zemtsy with the tsarist government: "Advice of Conservative Bourgeoisie" (Complete Collected Works, vol. 10, pp. 223–226), "Revolutionary Struggle and Liberal Brokerage" (ibid., pp. 256–265), "The First Steps of Bourgeois Betrayal" (ibid., pp. 291–297), "'Revolutionaries' in White Gloves" (ibid., pp. 298–303).